Link Protrudi & The Jaymen Releases
DRIVE IT HOME - Music Maniac LP 009 (released in 1986)
Re-released on Sin (SinCD 014 -2003)
 Although this has a similar track list to "Drive It Live," these are the original studio recordings from their first two LPs.: Drive It Home and Missing Links. A high energy guitar three-piece, Link Protrudi & The Jaymen are heavily Link Wray influenced and eight of these titles are Wray compositions. The full-on Wray blast is the band's forte, but midway there are a couple of very tasty surf originals in "Psyclone" and "Bandito." And yes, "Chaquita" is the Dave Clark Five 's great instrumental. DC5 are also represented here by "No Stopping," although you might easily confuse it with one of the Linkster's pieces. "Psyclone" reappears as an alternate take without the spooky spacey organfills but lacks a little of the atmosphere because of it. With no vocals and compositions of a consistently quality. Drive It Home is probably the greatest album Link Wray never made. - Alan Taylor MISTY LANE #17 (Italy)
DRIVE IT HOME (MMLP 009)and MISSING LINKS

 Both the full-length German album and the eight-song mini-LP (no overlap; the latter boasts a nutty live version of "Batman") are the fun-filled results of an informal 1986 session ans sound-thanks in no small part to the genuine-article songs and properly reverent originals-like long-lost Link Wray outtakes.

- Trouser Press

DRIVE IT LIVE - Skyclad LP (1987)
Re-released on Sin (SinCD 015)

More rockin' insights. The original "Bodacious" could pass for a Link Wray tune, and the Jaymen do right by the standard "jack The Ripper," a Fuzztones mainstay.

- Natalie Nichols, NIGHTLIFE

SLOW GRIND - Music Maniac LP (MMLP/CD 033) (1992)
Re-released on Sin (SinCD 016)

 A collection of burlesque instrumentals, brimming with lascivious guitar riffs that linger sexily on many a flirtatious roll. What with the honky-tonk rollick of "Last Call" and the throbbing, mournful take on the classic "Summertime," you'll have a hard time keeping your clothes on when Slow Grind is cranked up.

-Natalie Nichols, NIGHTLIFE

SEDUCTION- Music Maniac LP (MLP/CD 053) (1994)
re-released on Sin (SinCD 018)

Link Protrudi and The Jaymen - Led by Fuzztones' frontman Rudi Protrudi, this instrumental trio has released three albums. Their third album, Seduction (available on Music Man records) is a psychedelic trip into the world of Middle Eastern belly dancing music. Sounds strange, I know, but it continues to blow my mind every time I listen to it. Recorded while Protrudi was on hiatus in Amsterdam, this album shows the influences of the surroundings.

-Chemical Wire

HASHISH - Sin CD 019

 Alternate version of Link Protrudi & The Jaymen's sexodelic exotica masterpiece SEDUCTION,recorded live in a recording studio. Same songs, much different production. Great sound quality! A psychedelic instrumental tribute to the great exotic organist Korla Pandit, and to Middle Eastern belly dance music.Mostly original music played with loads of reverb and fuzz!
HIT AND RUN - Get Hip CD (1998)
Set up as a side project to Rudi Protrudi and the Fuzztones, this also functions as a tribute to Link Wray and the Raymen, with no less than eight of the 23 tunes on here being Link classics. Covering everything from "Mr. Guitar" and "Dinosaur" to the obvious choices like "Rumble," "Jack the Ripper" and "Rawhide," the trio also delivers Link-approved originals in "Chicken Choke," "Avalanche," "Backfire" and "Psyclone." Taken from the project's two vinyl albums, Drive It Home and Missing Links, this is straightforward, blast-it-out live-in-a-four-track-studio raunch, devoid of all subtleties. With that in mind, it sounds perfect, totally faithful to the sound and style it's so lovingly recreating here. A delicious alternative to pseudo-surf bands.

-Cub Koda, All Music Guide

NAKED CRISCO TWISTER PARTY - Sin CD 027

 GREAT, raw, raunchy and powerful performance by Rudi Protrudi's instrumental combo, LINK PROTRUDI & THE JAYMEN, recorded in Holland on their 1994 "Seduction" tour. Much better than DRIVE IT LIVE, both in performance and sound quality, with some previously unreleased tunes to boot! This recording is the ONLY KNOWN recording of the "Dutch" line-up, which Rudi assembled while living in Holland.The band features two members of Dutch garage band The Acetones, as well as Mysti Lane on organ and zils. Liner notes by former Jaymen bassist Eric Danno, who along with bassist Rob Louwers, was selected to back LINK WRAY himself after he heard about this line-up!